On-scene times for trauma patients in West Yorkshire

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 283-285

  Goodacre, S W ^a   Gray, A ^a   McGowan, A ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Major injury; On scene time; Paramedic

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; INJURY SCALE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSE RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TIME; TRAUMATOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030861578     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.14.5.283     Document Type: Article

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